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For the first time in 10 years, author and
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Join me as I walk
you through the stages of grief (Established by Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross) that
a person goes through when they find out a person they love is Transgender.
Watch this video If you’d like some helpful tips on how to process this and how
to help the person you love. Also around the 3 minute mark say hi to Freddy the
Fly. He was especially annoying when trying to shoot this video. I made some
videos and have since worked with people in over 20 different countries. I also
have worked with nearly 300 people since I began years ago. Some of these
people spend their entire transition with me, others just have 1 conversation
about something specific, like how to navigate an issue with a partner. If you
are finding my videos helpful, just imagine working with me. If you have any
questions or would like to book a session, email staff@thetransitionchannel.org
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Alexis has her master degree in social work from the University of Southern California and is finishing her PhD in Human Sexuality Education from Widener University. The education from her PhD has allowed her to access a plethora of studies on biology, treatment of, and the most cutting edge information regarding transgender people.
Going to a gender therapist is
quite scary. Because she understands this, she created a Youtube channel to
give you look at what she is like. Please consider watching a few videos to
learn about what she is like.
From Amazon.com: “Candid, first-hand accounts of couples who
stay together despite highly emotional gender issues. Head Over Heels gives
voice to thirty ordinary women who live extraordinary lives as partners to
crossdressers, transgenderists, and male-to-female transsexuals. These unique
women discuss, with honesty and great candor, how they first learned of their
partners’ gender issues, how they’ve coped with the emotions that followed, how
they’ve dealt with concerns about privacy/secrecy, and how they’ve handled
disclosure to children, friends, and family members. Far from a collection of
“happily ever after” stories, these narratives are filled with pain, courage,
curiosity, and joy as each woman struggles to redefine a relationship that
includes intimacy, social acceptance, dignity, and respect. The women whose
stories are featured in Head Over Heels didn’t know their partners were
gender-variant when they first met. Some found out early on; others learned of
their husbands’ gender variance after decades of marriage. Some were told by
their husbands―men they considered “regular guys;” others found out on their
own, sometimes in shocking ways. Their stories represent a wide spectrum of
women’s life experiences with crossdressers, transgenderists, transsexuals who
are nonoperative, pre-operative, and post-operative, families without children,
families with children at home, and families with children who have left home.
But these women share one thing in common: each has decided to stay in her
relationship, exploring her new life with an open, yet cautious, heart.
Some of the voices heard in Head Over
Heels:
“While putting my clothes on, I found a sales
receipt on the bureau from K-Mart for shoes, a bra, and stockings. My immediate
thought was that my husband had a girlfriend.”
“He dressed for me one night and it was the
worst experience of both our lives. I was shocked and he knew it and that hurt
him.”
“My siblings had been aware of Trish’s
transsexualism for several years when she went full-time. They have told me
that while I will always be welcome in their homes, Trish is not.”
“My husband may think differently, but I do
have a sexual identity. Actually, I’m real clear about it―I am a woman and he
is a man. I do not allow him to crossdress in the bedroom. I married a man;
therefore, I will sleep with a man.”
Head Over Heels also includes historical and current
information about resources and support for wives of gender-variant people, and
a substantive introduction that includes basic information about sexual and
gender identity and related issues.”
By Helen Boyd (2007) From Amazon.com: “Helen Boyd’s husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her husband were actually to become a woman — socially, legally, and medically. Would Boyd love and desire her partner the same way? Boyd’s first book, My Husband Betty, explored the relationships of cross-dressing men and their partners. Now, She’s Not the Man I Married is both a sequel and a more expansive examination of gender in relationships. It’s for couples who are homosexual or heterosexual, and for readers who fall anywhere along the gender continuum. As Boyd struggles to understand the nature of marriage, passion, and love, she shares her confusion and anger, providing a fascinating observation of the ways in which relationships are gendered, and how we cope, or don’t, with the emotional and sexual pressures that gender roles can bring to our marriages and relationships.”
From Amazon.com: “Author Helen Boyd is a happily married
woman whose husband enjoys sharing her wardrobe – and she has written the first
book on transgendered men to focus on their relationships. Traditionally known
as cross-dressers, transvestites, or drag queens, men like Helen’s husband are
a diverse lot who don’t always conform to stereotype. Helen addresses every
imaginable question concerning the probable and improbable reasons for behavior
that still baffle not only “mental health professionals” but the
practitioners themselves; the taxonomy of the transgendered and the distinct
but overlapping societies of each group; coming out; bisexuality, and
homophobia. The book features interviews with some very interesting
people: a dominatrix and her crossdressing husband; a crossdressing Reiki
master and his son; a woman who after dating one crossdresser wanted to date
others and fell in love with a transsexual instead; and a woman whose husband
promised her he was only a crossdresser who later realized that he was
transsexual. The stories and opinions chosen to represent the spectrum
will surely titillate, shock, and disgust some readers; alternatively, Helen’s
narrative is a powerful lens with which to examine our own notions of gender
and equality.”
Also from Amazon.com: “Helen Boyd is the author of My Husband Betty (Thunder’s
Mouth, 2004) and She’s Not the Man I Married (Seal Press, 2007). She lives in
Brooklyn with her partner Betty and their three cats. Her blog (en)gender can
be found at www.myhusbandbetty.com.”
Published February 20, 2018
When Chazzie
Grosshandler was in fourth-grade, she summed up the courage to tell her parents
that she was not a boy, as she was designated at birth, but a girl. The
11-year-old shares her story and her parents, Jenn and John, talk to TODAY’s
Megyn Kelly on what the journey was like.
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